The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-14
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Z Place Where Human Nature in all
its Aspects May be Profitably Stu
died. The Dead-Bcat'S Paradise.
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ton. Take something : should
pause and think who does care if he
doesn't. You arc. no doubt, sur
prised to hear ne speak IN this way,
and will admit that it is not kind
Of expression | often use when at
my work here behind the bar; but
there is . great deal Of food fer re-
fection in the remark" said we'll
known bartender.
How long have you been in the
liquor business -
About seventeen years, and SIX
teen Of those seventeen years | have
not tasted q drop Of strong liquor"
Isn't that rather strange ~
Not at all. l don't care for it,
and | wouldn't drink it if | did,
since every day see its effects. 1t
doesn't follow that an apothccary
must drink laudanum because lie
sells it, does it
You must have met some very
strange and interesting characters
during your long service? ?"
Yes. There is no better place in
the world to observe and study human
nature in all its moods than behind
q bar. We meet all classes and
grades Of society from the boot-blacli
to the clergyman"
"Of al! the characters that YOU see,
which interests you the most p
',Wcli. that is hard to say. They
are all interesting, if they are not all
amusing. Tile young college stu
dent with his ridiculous dress, his
idiot;c cye.glass, and lis vain at
tempt to initiate the easy grace Of
the man about town. is L source Of
amusement. when lie is on his first
drunk, hut there is little variety to
him, and YOU soon weary Of him.
The average is one idea distributed
among half q dozen Of them, so that
there is nothing to be gained from
their conversation. They are like
the circus. only worse-sce one and
You have seen al.
On tho whole, | think the beat
has the most to recommend him to
attention. He assumes all shapes,
ali disguises. Ii takes an old hand
to know him, and, even when you do
know him, lie is likely to get the
best Of YOU. and give you cause to re-
member him. Let me say right here
that there is q great difference be.
tween beat and bum. A bum is,
to be sure. beat. but it does not
follow that a beat must necessarily
be bum. The cid 6um, with his
battered hat, ragged clothes, bursted
slices and unshaved and dirty face,
is familiar to all, and his tricks and
methods are well known. He is by
70 means dangerous TO the pocket Of
any one except the. Sympathetic or
generous. lie is stamped and la
beled. He is :; son OF the gutter and
carries the certificate of his birth
about him. Such beat as that
rarely sets foo. in place like this.
lie would scorn TO soil one Of our
easy chairs, or drag his lazy feet
over our marble.tiled floor. Oh, no,
it was not Of that poor, unfortunate
victim Of rum that l spoke when I
mentioned the beat, out the upper
grades, who have not yet gradu ated
to the prison or the gutter
You speak Of grades Of beats; is
it possible to grade them ?"
20, yes. In the upper grades,
from, the man who is getting down to
his last dollar ard is trying to get
another last dollar. This class runs
from the well-dressed man who is
still able 10 beat tailor to the less
fortunate one who is compelled to
exercise his ingenuity in keeping
from being altogether shabby, and
gentecl."
But frola what class Of society are
these beats recruited p
"rhey come from great variety
of sources. Rich mems sons WHO
have been brought up to idleness,
and have been Gisowned or whose
fathers have failed; disappointed
professional men. who are unable to
make living in their protcs-
sions, and who cannot appreciate
the fact; well educated rascals
who would rather beg or stea!
than work, aad natural-born sponges.
The men of the first class are the
most dangerous and hardest to detect.
They have occasionally = little
money which they make 60 a long
way, and they have Z Jar-room ac-
ouaintauce with cur best customers
and men OF standing i'll the com
munitv. They begin by ordering
literally and paying for what they
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